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Back in December 2004, 3Com (COMS) announced that it was acquiring TippingPoint (old ticker: TPTI) for $430 million, or around $47 a share. The deal, which closed in January 2005, took longer to complete than initially expected, which can often be a reliable sign of potential problems later on. Nearly three years later, it’s pretty [...]
We’re quite sure that all of those Congressmen who were whining last week during the House Financial Services hearing with the SEC about America losing its competitive edge when it came to financial markets, aren’t checking IPO Home on a regular basis. Yesterday, eight companies, including a major hedge fund and a risky start-up run [...]
Maybe it’s just a weird coincidence, but Hertz (HTZ) and Blackstone Group (BX), which isn’t public yet, seem to be on the same filing schedule. Earlier Monday, both filed amended S-1s (Hertz’s is here and Blackstone’s is here), updating filings the two companies had each made on May 21.
A quick skim of Hertz’s amended filing [...]
When it comes to risk factors, most companies present a laundry list that runs the gamut from garden variety lawsuits to the sky falling. But the 10-K filed by Stanley Inc. (SXE) late Friday included something that, given the news that 14 more U.S. soldiers had been killed this past weekend, seems more than hypothetical.
That’s [...]
We all know the newspaper industry is in trouble, right? We see the headlines everyday, read the tales of woe, including this one in the premier issue of Portfolio and the cover story that I wrote in the current issue of Worth (not available online — sorry) with Mark Cuban’s thoughts on reviving newspapers.
So what [...]
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